Graining-tool



J. HAMMERL.

GRAINING TOOL.

(No Model.)

Patented Oct. 2, 1883.

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GRAINlNG-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Paten t No. 285,999, dated October 2 1883.

Application filed March 20, 1883. No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPII HAMMERL', of Long Island City, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Graining-Tools; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved graining-tool. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same, and Fig. 3 is a detailview of the serrated felt.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention'has relation to graining-tools; and itconsists in certain improvements upon the graining-tool for which Letters Patent No. 273,516 were granted to me 011 the 6th day of March, 1883, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the above-mentioned graining-tool the absorbent material, which is preferably felt,

is fastened upon the handle or comb, so that when it is worn out, or has become useless in any other manner, the entire tool becomes useless, or, at any event, has to have the absorbent material removed from it and new material glued or otherwise fastened upon it; and to obviate this difficulty I construct a clamp adapted to hold the material between two 3' aws forced together by means of a screw, E, as

shown in the accompanying drawings, where the letter A indicates apiece of absorbent material, preferably felt, serrated at the edge to form finer or coarser serm or teeth, as desired, according to the nature of the work to be done. B B are two metallic plates, having each, upon the middle of the edges of their sides, two inward-turned perforated lips or lugs, 0,

through which a pin or bolt, D, passes, c011- necting the lugs upon the two plates and form- 5 ing a hinge upon which the plates rock. A thumb-screw, E, passes through a femalethreaded hole, F, in the outer end of one of the plates, and bears with its inner end against the other plate, forcing the ends apart, which 0 closes the other ends or jaws-of the plates, clamping the serrated piece of "felt.

If the tool is to be used in corners, I use a clamp or holder, the plates of which are cut in the shape of a rhomb, enabling the painter 5 to draw the tool in corners and hollows with greater ease and without danger of touching the other side of the corner with his hand or with the tool, as when using the tool having rectangular plates.

It will be seen that by thus clamping the ab sorbent between two movable jaws, pieces of felt having wider or narrower spaces between. their teeth may be used in the same handle, and likewise different pieces may be used in the same handle for different colors of paint.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States The'iinproved graining-tool herein shown and described, composed of a pair of hinged fiat plates, B B, of suitable shape, thumbscrew E, inserted through athreaded aperture,

F, in one of the plates, and bearing with its inner end against the plate opposite, and a serrated piece of absorbent material, A, clamped removably between the lower end of the plates.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses. I

JOSEPH ITIABIDIERIJ.

Witnesses:

J. HARVEY SMEDLEY, J. Ron. Laws. 

